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<div>{{Book Data<br />
|title=Carpe Jugulum<br />
|cover=[[File:CarpeJugulum.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]<br />
|coauthors=<br />
|illustrator=<br />
|date=5th November 1998<br />
|publisher=Doubleday<br />
|isbn=0385409923<br />
|pages=285<br />
|rrp=<br />
|series=Witches Series<br />
|characters=[[Granny Weatherwax]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Agnes Nitt]]<br />
|annotations=yes<br />
|notes= <br />
}}<br />
==Blurb==<br />
[[Mightily Oats]] has not picked a good time to be a [[Omnia|priest]]. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of [[Lancre]] for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between [[vampires]] and [[witches magic|witches]], and he's not sure there ''is'' a right side.<br />
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There're the witches &ndash; young [[Agnes Nitt|Agnes]], who is ''really'' in two minds about everything, [[Magrat Garlick|Magrat]], who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, [[Nanny Ogg]], who is far too knowing... and [[Granny Weatherwax]], who is big trouble.<br />
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And the vampires are ''intelligent'' &ndash; not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?"<br />
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They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're [[Überwald|out of the casket]] and want a bite of the future.<br />
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Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Count de Magpyr]], a vampire from [[Überwald]], and his family travel to [[Lancre]] where they are invited by King [[Verence II]] to attend the naming of [[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]], the newly born daughter of Queen [[Magrat Garlick]]. At the party, the vampires announce that they intend to move into Lancre Castle and take over the country, and due to a strange type of hypnotism everyone considers this to be perfectly acceptable. However, young witch [[Agnes Nitt]] and the priest, an [[Omnia|Omnian]] traveller called [[Mightily Oats]] are able to resist their power due to their split personalities. The Count's son [[Vlad de Magpyr|Vlad]] becomes attracted to Agnes, partly because of her resistance.<br />
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To make matters worse, the [[Vampires]] have used Self-Help style conditioning to become immune to the conventional menthods of disposing a vampire e.g. garlic, lemons, holy water, poppy seeds, sock theft, daylight and religious symbols. At the same time, they have taken to wearing normal clothes, staying up until noon and drinking wine. Agnes persuades Magrat and [[Nanny Ogg]] to find [[Granny Weatherwax]], their only hope. They find Granny Weatherwax living in a cave in seclusion and are unable to convince her to help.<br />
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Soon, they confront the vampires but look to be defeated and the Count only laughs at both their mob and Oats' own attempt at defiance. Granny Weatherwax arrives, stumbling and defeated and hardly intimidating, and the vampires succeed in giving her their bite. Granny appears destined to become a vampire, but afterwards she recovers in the care of Oats. Nanny Ogg travels to the vampires existing residence at [[Don'tgonearthe Castle]] in Überwald, where she meets [[Igor]], the Count's servant. Igor is resentful to the modernised Vampires who have constantly ridiculed his attempts to keep their castle in the same way as the former Count [[Bela de Magpyr]], a far more traditional vampire. He also appears to have a crush on Nanny.<br />
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Vlad and his ill-mannered sister [[Lacrimosa de Magpyr|Lacrimosa]] kidnap Agnes Nitt and takes her to Escrow, a town near Dontgonearthe Castle which the the Count considers to be a place of harmony between humans and the Vampires who follow the Count. In fact, the townspeople are totally subjugated to vampires who call in to take blood freely. In the town square, a change comes over the Vampires: Lacrimosa attacks Agnes in a strangely pathetic manner, several townspeople succeed in killing a vampire, and Vlad falls to temptation and bites Agnes although again, there is no permanent effect. It is discovered that the vampires have become weakened, have lost their ability to fly and instead of craving blood, are now becoming desperate for tea and biscuits. They are becoming susceptible to conventional methods of vampire disposal.<br />
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Dontgonearthe Castle becomes the scene of a final confrontation between the Vampires and united citizens of Escrow and Lancre. The Vampires have become terrified of their weakness but the Count remains as strong as ever, due to his complete faith in staying immune, and takes baby Esmerelda as a hostage. Granny Weatherwax arrives (having been carried by Oats) and reveals that instead of her being made into a vampire, the vampires have become 'Weatherwaxed'. By sharing her blood, the vampires have inadvertently allowed themselves to be controlled by Granny (via [[Borrowing]]) into not being able to do certain things such as flying or harming young Esme.<br />
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The vampires are further horrified when it is revealed that Igor (who considers the loss of his dog to be the last straw) has rebelled against them and brought back the Old Count by pouring blood on his ashes. The traditional thinking of the Old Count quickly proves far more popular with the people from Escrow than modern vampirism. Finally, Oats returns and with a new-found confidence gives the New Count a fatal axe wound, although Granny points out that the vampires may return again after many years, centuries or millennia. The Old Count is left in charge of Escrow by popular demand, and is charged by Granny to teach the two young Magpyrs the "old ways' (ie - stupidity). The three vampires then turn into a flock of magpies and disappear into the darkness of the roof of the castle, while the witches return to Lancre.<br />
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==Characters==<br />
===Main Characters===<br />
*[[Granny Weatherwax]]<br />
*[[Nanny Ogg]]<br />
*[[Agnes Nitt]]<br />
*[[Mightily Oats]]<br />
*[[Magrat Garlick]]<br />
*[[Verence II]]<br />
*[[Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre]]<br />
*[[Count de Magpyr]]<br />
*[[Bela de Magpyr]]<br />
*[[Vlad de Magpyr]]<br />
*[[Lacrimosa de Magpyr]]<br />
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===Minor Characters===<br />
*[[Igor]]<br />
*[[Scraps]] (or Thcrapth)<br />
*[[Greebo]]<br />
*[[Hodgesaargh]]<br />
*[[Giamo Casanunda]]<br />
*[[Shawn Ogg]]<br />
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===Cameos and Mentions===<br />
*[[Brutha]] <br />
*[[Simony]]<br />
*[[Ossory]]<br />
*[[Big Jim Beef]]<br />
*[[Magyrato]]<br />
*[[Carmilla de Magpyr]]<br />
*Mrs [[Patternoster]]<br />
*John and [[Florence Ivy]]<br />
*[[Scorbic]]<br />
*[[Bestiality Carter]]<br />
*[[Big Aggie]]<br />
*[[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]]<br />
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==Locations==<br />
*[[Lancre]]<br />
**[[Lancre Town]]<br />
**[[Lancre Castle]]<br />
**[[Lancre Bridge]]<br />
**[[Long Lake Clan|The Long Lake]]<br />
*[[Überwald]]<br />
**[[Slake]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Don'tgonearthe Castle]]<br />
**[[Klotz]] (mentioned)<br />
**[[Escrow]]<br />
*[[Ohulan Cutash]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Ghat]] (mentioned)<br />
*[[Kashncari]] (mentioned)<br />
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==Things and Concepts==<br />
*[[Phoenix ]]<br />
*[[Nac Mac Feegle]]<br />
*[[Kelda]]<br />
*The [[Muntab]] Question<br />
*[[Ich bin Ein Rattarsedschwein]]<br />
*[[Lancrastian Army Knife]]<br />
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==Annotations==<br />
The title of the book is a parody of the phase ''Carpe Diem'' ("Seize the day") and roughly translates as "Go for the throat".<br />
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<blockquote><p><br />
'Buffaloeth,' said Igor, unlocking another door.<br />
'He broke out in them?'<br />
'A herd fell on him. A freak acthident. We don't talk about it.'<br />
</p></blockquote><br />
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Possible reference to the Canadian attraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump where natives would drive buffalo off a cliff to kill them. A young warrior wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below. While we don't know his exact thoughts, the last thing to go through his head was... a herd of buffalo.<br />
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<blockquote><p><br />
'But there's werewolves and vampires and-'<br />
</p></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><p><br />
'Yes, but not everywhere. We should be safe on the main road. Anyway, there's not much of a choice.'<br />
</p></blockquote><br />
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Possibly referring to the cult classic film 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981), in which the two main characters are told repeatedly:<br />
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<blockquote><p><br />
'Stay off the moors, lads. Stick to the road'<br />
</p></blockquote><br />
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==Adaptations==<br />
===[[Theatre Adaptations|Theatre]]===<br />
Adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]] into a stage play in 1999.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
{|<br />
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| valign="top" | [[File:CJ First.jpg|thumb|120px|First Edition Cover by [[Josh Kirby]]]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ Black.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2004]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ Tape.jpg|thumb|120px|Audio Cassette]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ CD.jpg|thumb|140px|Audio CD]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ CDG.jpg|thumb|110px|Cover by Carl D. Galian]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ US.jpg|thumb|110px|US Cover]]<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ Zoom.jpg|thumb|110px|Paperback 2012]]<br />
|}<br />
{|<br />
|-<br />
| valign="top" | [[File:CJ CL.jpg|thumb|110px|Collectors Library Edition]]<br />
|}<br />
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==External Links==<br />
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/carpe-jugulum.html ''Carpe Jugulum'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]<br />
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[[de:Buch:Ruhig Blut!]]</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:The_MacAbre&diff=30946Talk:The MacAbre2020-05-06T17:01:11Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>Actually, a fairly comprehensive [http://www.whisky-distilleries.info/SiteMapD_EN.shtml list] shows only two malts named after "Macs", the Macallan and Macduff. (Gordon & MacPhail is a négociant-bottler of other peoples' whiskies, as I believe Bearhugger's does with the Macabre.) There are thirty-one malts starting with "Glen". --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 15:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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MacAbre might also be a reference to the Scottish or quasi-Scottish nature of Jimkin Bearhugger's products, being a homonym for "Ma caber"; or "My caber" pronounced with a Scottish accent. A caber is a long, stout pole, similar to a telegraph pole, used in a sporting event at Scottish Highland Games, where participants have to toss the caber in the air, flipping it end over end. The winner is the contestant who throws the caber the greatest distance. --[[User:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 17:00, 6th May 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Aaron_Fidget&diff=30915Talk:Aaron Fidget2020-04-26T14:35:32Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: Created page with "When Death said Aaron's age was "EIGHT GOING ON ... OH, ABOUT FORTY-FIVE", I didn't take that to mean that he would be ''going until about forty-five'',..."</p>
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<div>When [[Death]] said [[Aaron Fidget|Aaron]]'s age was "EIGHT GOING ON ... OH, ABOUT FORTY-FIVE", I didn't take that to mean that he would be ''going until about forty-five'', I thought he was referring to the child's unusually adult manner of speech and demeanor; i.e. chronologically he was eight years old, but he acted as if he was about forty-five.<br />
-- [[user:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 14:26 26 April 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Dean&diff=30907Dean2020-04-23T15:50:17Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|title=Dean<br />
|photo=deanmine.jpg|The Current Dean by [[user:darkplush| Kit Cox]]<br />
|name=Henry, last name unknown.<br />
|age= 72 in {{SM}}<br />
|race=Human<br />
|occupation=Dean, later Archchancellor<br />
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|residence=[[Unseen University]], later [[Brazeneck College]]<br />
|death= <br />
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|books=[[:Category:Rincewind Series|Rincewind Series]]<br />
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The '''Dean''' was a senior [[wizard]] at the [[Unseen University]] who was a member of the [[Faculty]]. He first appeared in {{MP}}. Shortly before the events of {{UA}}, he moves away to become Archchancellor of [[Brazeneck College]] in [[Pseudopolis]]. From this point onwards he is instead known as '''Archchancellor Henry'''.<br />
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Another wizard who holds the post of Dean appeared in {{S}}. He is clearly stated to be a separate character to the Dean who appears in subsequent books. In {{IT}}, the Dean tells Ridcully "''I don't know anything about that [unpleasantness with the Sourcerer]. I wasn't Dean at the time''." Similarly, it is not known if another wizard replaced him as Dean after he left.<br />
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Not to be confused with Dean [[B. Smoth]], his counterpart at Bugarup University. Dean Smoth, who appears in {{TLC}}, was ''much'' too helpful to be mistaken for UU's Dean.<br />
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==At the Unseen University==<br />
The "Dean of Pentacles" to give him his full title, is an incredibly obese man ("all of twenty stone" [280 pounds] in {{IT}}), who has the dubious distinction of having been granted the nickname "Two Chairs" by Ridcully (owing to the fact that he is so large that he uses two chairs to sit in). He is generally to be found in his study reading a [[grimoire]] or in the great hall eating. His job at UU as he, and everyone else, describes it is to sit around, sleep and eat incredibly big dinners. He also attends some of the functions that are held by guilds or clubs around the city on behalf of the University and partakes of other people's big dinners. All of this makes the fact, disclosed in {{TLC}}, that he got a [[University Brown|Brown]] for Rowing at UU in his younger days all the less believable.<br />
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Seldom knowingly nice or kind, the Dean is an old-school wizard who believes that power should be used, and likes nothing better than throwing fireballs. The Dean enjoys himself immensely when he gets to use high-powered destructive spells, and is thus considered by Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] as too mentally unstable to be allowed to join the [[Specials]] at a time of crisis, when fireballs may have been useful, he was politely thanked for his interest and sent home. When he is allowed to fight, he progresses in a series of spinning leaps, shouting "Hut hut hut!" and "Yo!" a lot. He has even been known to tie a rag around his forehead and shout "Bonsai!" - appropriately, as it helps him in his art of ''Bush-I-do''. In the wake of {{SM}}, he's been known to don a leather robe at times of crisis, with the phrase "Born To Rune" in studs on the back.<br />
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He is like a lightning conductor to any raw magic around, and Ridcully often just observes him whenever there is a clear occult event, as whatever is happening to people will be happening to the Dean at least twice as much. One of the best examples of this susceptibility to whatever occult or semi-magical occurrence is happening, as well as any fads or trends occurs in {{SM}}. Who else but the Dean would paint his room black, create a quiff that could take out an eye, or seriously contemplate riding a cargo-cult motorbike when everyone else is only mildly rebelling?<br />
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He once spent seventeen years writing a treatise entitled ''The Use of the syllable "ENK" in Levitation Spells in the Early Confused Period.'' His family is quite wealthy; as a lad, he'd hung up pillowcases for the Hogfather to fill rather than stockings. He was born in Pseudopolis, near which his father owned a lot of cabbage fields, seven months before [[Mustrum Ridcully]]. As a student, he studied in the evenings rather than join his classmates on forays into the city's taverns. In ''The Science of Discworld II: The Globe'', Rincewind mentions that the Dean's UU office features, among the usual wizardly decor, a skull that sings comic songs.<br />
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==At Brazeneck College==<br />
By the time of {{UA}} it is revealed he had migrated to [[Brazeneck College]] and become its Archchancellor, to the rage of Ridcully and minor annoyance of the rest of the UU staff. He attempted to bring Ponder Stibbons over to Brazeneck as well, but failed, and poached a member of Ponder's department, [[Adrian Turnipseed]], instead. "Archchancellor Henry" challenged his fellow Archchancellor to a [[football]] match between wizarding universities over the ownership of the [[Archchancellor's Hat]]... but when a [[Pex|seventy-foot tall chicken]] broke out of Brazeneck and rampaged around the city of [[Pseudopolis]], the match had to be rescheduled until the university is rebuilt.<br />
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More recently, the ex-Dean returned to UU to accompany Rincewind in investigating Roundworld's latest difficulties in {{SOD4}}. The hostility between the rival Archchancellors seems to have cooled by this point, and they interact with the measured politeness of extreme caution.<br />
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His replacement as Dean at Unseen University has not yet been announced.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* In {{MP}}, the [[Archchancellor]] says "The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!" To which the [[Bursar]] Replies "'',,,the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals''." <br />
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*In {{UA}}, upon being reminded of the Dean's departure, Ridcully comments, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless dean!" - a slight alteration from the lament of Shakespeare's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_lear King Lear].<br />
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* In {{TLC}}, the Dean refers to "''the memo saying I've been appointed as Dean! That was years ago''!"<br />
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* The Dean's violent tendencies aren't entirely confined to magic-slinging: he suffered a black eye, and dealt out a bloody nose in exchange, when he got into a fistfight with the Senior Wrangler (''The Science of Discworld''), defending his opinion that intelligence in Roundworld would first appear on land.<br />
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[[de:Henry (Erzkanzler)]]</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Bugarup_University&diff=30906Talk:Bugarup University2020-04-23T15:42:46Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>==Archchancellor==<br />
Would be nice to have him named and linked... --[[User:Death|Death]] 12:34, 3 May 2006 (CEST)<br />
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==And now for a reading of the faculty rules!==<br />
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From Monty Python's ''Bruces/University of Walamalloo'' sketch. Warning: politically incorrect humour ahead dating from 1970.<br />
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Rule One:- ''No pooftahs!''<br />
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Rule Two:- ''This term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking!''<br />
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Rule Three:- ''No pooftahs!''<br />
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Rule Four:- ''No member of the faculty is to maltreat any other member of the faculty - if there's anybody watching.''<br />
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Rule Five:- ''No pooftahs!''<br />
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Rule Six:- ''There is no-o-o-O-O-O...... rule six.''<br />
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Rule Seven:- ''no pooftahs!''<br />
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Bruce (John Cleese):- Right, that concludes the reading of the faculty rules, and I'd now like to ask the padre to lead us in a prayer!<br />
The Rev. Bruce (Eric Idle):- Oh lord we beseech thee, amen!<br />
Bruces:- Amen! (in the background dice are rolled, coins flipped, et c, and a mutter of "craps - twos!" is heard.)<br />
Bruce (Michael Palin):- (sings:) This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land, you can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand!<br />
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(Segues into the Philosophers' Song...)<br />
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== Archchancellor ==<br />
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Why is it a spoiler to reveal bill rincewind's name? He's a very minor character and who really cares? I will integrate it into the article. This is just my opinion so feel free to revert but please explain your reasoning.--[[User:Beligaronia|Beligaronia]] 06:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Motto ==<br />
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Does anyone know what the motto means? --Confusion 16:36, 19 November 2011 (CET)<br />
:[http://ausdwcon.org/ "No Worries", mate!] --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 16:47, 19 November 2011 (CET)<br />
And I'm pretty sure the addendum (''Nullae Sheilae Sanguinae'') means "No Bloody Sheilas" -- [[User:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 15:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Treacle_Mine_Road&diff=30905Treacle Mine Road2020-04-23T15:10:15Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>'''Treacle Mine Road''' is one of the main thoroughfares of [[Morpork]], extending [[Widdershins]] from the foot of the [[Misbegot Bridge]] to [[Easy Street]], where it becomes [[Cheap Street]]. It defines the [[rimwards|rimward]] boundary of the greater [[The Shades|Shades]] quarter; at its back, the city core.<br />
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Treacle Mine Road was once exactly that: the treacle mine was a major industry until it was displaced by the lower-cost wells of Quirm (see the legend of [[The Fifth Elephant (legend)|The Fifth Elephant]] for a possible explanation of how the treacle came to be a mineral deposit). The road lent its name to the short-lived [[People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road]] during the [[Glorious Revolution]], when it was the front line of the rebel area.<br />
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Toward the Misbegot Bridge end is the hall of the [[Seamstresses' Guild]] on the corner of [[Sheer Street]]. Several blocks from the bridge is the newly-rebuilt [[Treacle Mine Road Watch House]] (at the junction of [[Cable Street]] and [[Silver Street]]), where [[Samuel Vimes]] worked until the building was burned down by a [[Noble dragon|dragon]] in {{G!G!}}. <br />
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The street hosts two pubs, the Misbegotten, near to Misbegot Bridge, and the Widespread Arms, which is, possibly not coincidentally, immediately opposite the Seamstresses' Guild. This pub is therefore ideal for Immediately Before, Immediately Afterwards, or perhaps both. <br />
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Before becoming resident at the [[Opera House]], [[Agnes Nitt]] lodged at no. 4 Treacle Mine Road. <br />
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====Places located on Treacle Mine Road, starting from the bridge, according to the City of Ankh-Morpork map, the digital app:====<br />
* Deadman’s Corner (where Treacle Mine Road meets [[Misbegot Bridge]])<br />
* The Widespread Arms (in Deadman’s Corner lot, across from the [[Seamstresses' Guild]])<br />
* Sheer Sports suppliers of ping-pong, bats, balls, shuttlecocks and trampolines<br />
* Lemual Boot Apothecaries <br />
* The Helmet and Shield pub<br />
* The Treacle Miner Sticky Head pub<br />
* The Treacle Miners hostelry pub <br />
* [[Treacle Mine Road Watch House]] (rebuilt in {{NW}})<br />
* Gimlet’s Hole Food Delicatessen (corner of Cable Street)<br />
* Treacle Mine Road Post Office<br />
* The [[Pink PussyCat Club]]<br />
* The Pig & Trotter diner<br />
* Kroll Thighbiter’s Rat Pie & Chips ethnic food<br />
* Miss Battye dressmakers and darning (at Easy Street / The Scours, where Treacle Mine Road becomes [[Cheap Street]]<br />
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[[Hex]] once recorded an error message saying ''+++Error At Address: 14, Treacle Mine Road, Ankh-Morpork+++''. Speculation has ensued as to why exactly ''this'' address. It is possible that 14 Treacle Mine Road may be the address of the cellar, rented by Dibbler and used as a storeroom, where he first found the City Eggs that later mutated into wire shopping trolleys in {{RM}}. <br />
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== Roundworld Resonances ==<br />
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Were the treacle mines inspired by the soup wells in {{wp|Clangers|The Clangers}}?<br />
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[[de:Sirupminenstra&szlig;e]]</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Bilious&diff=30904Talk:Bilious2020-04-23T14:51:49Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>"Bilious was created from the excess belief that spilled over when Teatime killed the Hogfather, and may no longer exist."<br />
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But if only one person truly believes in a God, then that God never dies? (ref. [[Brutha]] and [[Om]] in {{SG}} ) It appears to be clear at the end of {{H}} that one person (the [[Tooth Fairy]]) truly believes in Bilious, God or not... it's nice to think that in some corner of the Disc they may be living a relatively "normal" life together, and, as [[Sybil Ramkin]] reflected, "most people seem to manage when the magic rubs off"--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 11:50, 27 April 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Tried to incorporate some of this into the article. Even gods w/ no believers continue to exist (as voices on the wind in the desert), which implies that, once a god is born, he can never die (so all those lares and penates still exist somewhere... just as the gods of Djelibeybi existed quietly until the events of Pyramids) [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 00:04, 27 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Bilious is the Oh God of Hangovers and as such is officially invoked every time some hungover wretch rolls over and whimpers "oh, god". Given the drinking habits of the inhabitants of the Disk, Bilious is likely now a substantially powerful deity. [[User:Firestorm17|Firestorm17]]<br />
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I always imagined that [[Bibulous]] and Bilious would be identical twins, looking like a before and after picture of the world's biggest, booziest party. -- [[User:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 14:51, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Bibulous&diff=30903Talk:Bibulous2020-04-23T14:46:51Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>I assume we accept that there's only one God of Wine (as stated in {{SG}}), so Tuvelpit and Smimto should redirect here, yes? [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 04:58, 23 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Hmmm...''Smimto''. A popular drink in the north of England - one of those hangers-on from the Temperance Bar tradition of the early twentieth century, in fact - is a fruit-juice based soda called ''Vimto''. (See entry on [[Roo Beer]] for further background info.) <br />
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"Vimto" is short for "Vim Tonic", the "Vim" part being a word which has fallen out of usage in modern (post-WW2) English:(1) it was probably coined by early advertisers as a word denoting life, energy, and the sparkle that comes from a happy mind in an active healthy body unpolluted by the demon deceiver, Alcohol. Vimto is still available in both soda and cordial form in many parts of England, but especially in the North and North-West. (the spiritual home of the Temperance movement)<br />
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(1) "Vim" is probably older than the advertising industry as we know it, at c. 200 years, but it's died young. Apparently Neil Gaiman used it last in 1999 (with its inseparable synonym, ''vigor'',) but it hasn't been heard since. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 22:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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There is a certain hidden irony in a God of Wine being given a name that for many, will evoke a Temperance drink...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 09:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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As he is described as the God of Wine ''and Things on Sticks'', I wonder if he takes a special interest in [[C.M.O.T. Dibbler]] ... almost everything he sells seems to be available "onna stick". I always imagined that Bibulous and [[Bilious]] would be identical twins, looking like a before and after picture of the world's biggest, booziest party. --[[User:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 14:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Talk:Bibulous&diff=30902Talk:Bibulous2020-04-23T14:46:25Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>I assume we accept that there's only one God of Wine (as stated in {{SG}}), so Tuvelpit and Smimto should redirect here, yes? [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 04:58, 23 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Hmmm...''Smimto''. A popular drink in the north of England - one of those hangers-on from the Temperance Bar tradition of the early twentieth century, in fact - is a fruit-juice based soda called ''Vimto''. (See entry on [[Roo Beer]] for further background info.) <br />
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"Vimto" is short for "Vim Tonic", the "Vim" part being a word which has fallen out of usage in modern (post-WW2) English:(1) it was probably coined by early advertisers as a word denoting life, energy, and the sparkle that comes from a happy mind in an active healthy body unpolluted by the demon deceiver, Alcohol. Vimto is still available in both soda and cordial form in many parts of England, but especially in the North and North-West. (the spiritual home of the Temperance movement)<br />
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(1) "Vim" is probably older than the advertising industry as we know it, at c. 200 years, but it's died young. Apparently Neil Gaiman used it last in 1999 (with its inseparable synonym, ''vigor'',) but it hasn't been heard since. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 22:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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There is a certain hidden irony in a God of Wine being given a name that for many, will evoke a Temperance drink...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 09:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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As he is described as the God of Wine ''and Things on Sticks'', I wonder if he takes a special interest in [[C.M.O.T. Dibbler]] ... almost everything he sells seems to be available "onna stick". I always imagined that Bibulous and [[Bilious]] would be identical twins, looking like a before and after picture of teh world's biggest, booziest party. --[[User:Ericthehalfabee|Ericthehalfabee]] 14:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Bibulous&diff=30901Bibulous2020-04-23T14:36:28Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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<div>[[The gods|God]] of Wine and Things on Sticks, also known as Tuvelpit and Smimto ({{SG}}), he resembles a fat man who enjoys endless parties with scantily-clad young ladies. He drinks all kinds of colorful drinks with things on the ends of sticks and interesting names. Normally, he does not suffer from any hangover. Described extensively in {{H}}, wholeheartedly hated by [[Bilious]].<br />
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The [[Roundworld]] reference is to [[wikipedia:Dionysus|Bacchus]], also called Dionysus. And as the ''word'' Bibulous means ''given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink'' he's a remarkably aptly-named God of Wine.<br />
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[[de:Trinkgern]]</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Ptraci&diff=30892Ptraci2020-04-21T17:34:05Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: </p>
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|occupation= Former handmaiden, now Queen of Djelibeybi<br />
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|relatives= Half-brother [[Teppic]]<br />
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Ptraci was one of the handmaidens of [[Pteppicymon_XXVII|King Pteppicymon XXVII]] of [[Djelibeybi]]. When he died (after unfortunately believing he was a seagull and attempting to emulate their flights) she refused to "voluntarily" take the poison that would allow her to become his handmaiden after death too, so [[Dios]] ordered her put to death.<br />
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The new king [[Pteppicymon XXVIII]] - better known as [[Teppic|Pteppic]] (who had trained at the [[Assassins' Guild]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]]) rescued her and fled Djelibeybi to [[Ephebe]], following a trans-dimensional disaster that wiped the entire valley of the Djel from time and space and encapsulated it in its own dimension. Using the greatest mathematician on the Disc (a camel named [[You Bastard]]), they managed to return to Djelibeybi and restore it to reality. On the journey they discover their relative lives have been pretty much a no-score-draw: the trained assassin has inhumed a total number of people somewhere between nought and ten, while the trained handmaiden has congressed a total number of people somewhere between nought and ten. Teppic realises she is just as much a misfit in her profession as he is, and the relationship warms.<br />
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Following a realisation that they shared an ancestral dream featuring cows and trombones (or possibly [[wimblehorn|wimblehorns]]), it turned out that Ptraci was Pteppic's half-sister; and was his successor when he abdicated. As a former handmaiden (Grade 3), the Djelibeybian priests thought she would be easy to control. They turned out to be very wrong. Like her half-brother she is keen to get in some decent plumbing. It appears that the children of the Djel are about to be dragged into the new century whether they - or their priests - like it or not.<br />
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[[Roundworld]] link: in England, "Tracy" is a name often used in jest to mean a thick and/or slutty girl, particularly when used in combination with "Sharon". The phrase "Sharon and Tracy" has long had pejorative connotations when aimed at a pair of girls out in the evening with enough dress between them for one. One of the hideous "Fat Slags" in long-running adult comic Viz is called Tracy. (Her friend is a Sandra). In the long-running British TV Sitcom "Birds of a Feather" a pair of "Essex girl" sisters, Tracey Stubbs (played by Linda Robson) Sharon Theodopolopodous (played by Pauline Quirke) are the leading characters.<br />
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Ptraci becomes Pharoah. Could Terry have been influenced by Asterix the Gaul? <br />
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<div>His Greatness the King '''Pteppicymon XXVIII''', Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the {{wp|Barque|Barque}} of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King, also known as '''Pteppic''' or '''Teppic''', is the son of King [[Pteppicymon XXVII]] and [[Artela]] and 1398th monarch of [[Djelibeybi]].<br />
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His father shocked the country's priesthood by sending Pteppic away to be trained at the [[Assassins' Guild|Assassins']] school in [[Ankh-Morpork]], since he had heard that it gave a very good education; the priesthood were very much against any kind of secular education for someone who would one day be a god. Pteppic's practical education certainly saved [[Djelibeybi]] in its hour of need: his aptitude for being an Assassin, which stopped short of actually killing people, was first-class in every other respect, especially in his talent for [[Edificeering|edificeering]]. He also learned seven languages including [[Morporkian]], [[Vanglemesht]], [[Ephebe]] and [[Latatian]].<br />
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At the [[Assassins' Guild]] he became a member of [[Viper House]], then on the night he passed his final Assassin's Exam (the practical), his father died. The part of his father that was divine left him at his moment of his death; It then went to find the new king. As a god in the minds of his people, Pteppic briefly became omniscient and semi-divine. He then raced back to [[Djelibeybi]], where he found that time hadn't moved on (in fact, it had stood still for almost 7000 years), and his modern ideas and ideals, such as plumbing and feather beds, were unacceptable to [[Dios]], the High Priest who had presided over each of the 1397 previous kings.<br />
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As King, Pteppic commissioned the building of the Great Pyramid, also known as [[Ptaclusp's Folly]], and attempted to modernise the aptly-named Old Kingdom and relax the formality and ritual around him. He found, however, that his subjects were dismayed and frightened by his willingness to approach them, and that Dios, whom everyone continued to look to as the real ruler of the kingdom, would often overrule him, perhaps by "reinterpreting" his commands.<br />
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Much went wrong, but when a pretty handmaiden, [[Ptraci]], was sentenced to death, he used his Assassin's skills to rescue her. Together, they fled Djelibeybi to [[Ephebe]], narrowly escaping a trans-dimensional disaster involving the Great Pyramid that wiped the entire valley of the Djel from time and space and encapsulated it in its own dimension. Using the greatest mathematician on the Disc (a camel named [[You Bastard]]), Pteppic managed to return to Djelibeybi and restore it to reality. In the process, he destroyed the Great Pyramid and several others, setting the kingdom free to move forward in time.<br />
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With Dios having vanished (and presumed dead), Pteppic continued to reign as king for a short period, but soon abdicated in favour of Ptraci, who turned out to be his half-sister, as discovered following a realisation that they shared an ancestral dream featuring cows and trombones (or possibly [[wimblehorn|wimblehorns]]).<br />
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Pteppic talks to ordinary people and tradesmen as King George III once did.(p.134 Corgi ed.)<br />
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[[de:Teppicymon XXVIII]]</div>Ericthehalfabeehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Wimblehorn&diff=30890Wimblehorn2020-04-21T17:23:22Z<p>Ericthehalfabee: Created page with "A '''wimblehorn''' is a musical instrument similar in appearance to a trombone. It was mentioned in {{P}} in an exchange between Teppic, (also known as 'Pteppic' or someti..."</p>
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<div>A '''wimblehorn''' is a musical instrument similar in appearance to a trombone. It was mentioned in {{P}} in an exchange between [[Teppic]], (also known as 'Pteppic' or sometimes 'His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King') and [[Ptraci]], a former handmaiden in the court of [[Pteppicymon XXVII]] (Teppic's father). Teppic tells Ptraci about a dream he has regularly about cows. They disagree about the instrument one of the cows plays in the dream (Teppic thinks it is a trombone; Ptraci asserts that it's a ceremonial '''wimblehorn''', if you look closely).<br />
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It is through this exchange that they realise they both share this ancestral dream, and that they must be related for that to be the case. This is confirmed by [[Hoot Koomi|Koomi]], the newly promoted [[Djelibeybi]] High Priest; after checking the files, he explains that they are half brother and sister.<br />
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There is a [[Roundworld]] instrument called a '''flugelhorn''', described as similar to a trumpet but with a mellower tone. This may be where Sir Terry got the inspiration for the name '''wimblehorn'''.<br />
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<div>Father of King [[Pteppicymon XXVIII]] (Teppic) of [[Djelibeybi]], and of the handmaiden [[Ptraci]]; and 1397th monarch of the Valley of the Djel.<br />
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He shocked the country's priesthood by sending his son away to be trained at the Assassins' school in Ankh-Morpork, since he had heard that it gave a very good education; the priesthood were very much against any kind of secular education for someone who would one day be a god. <br />
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Died - embarrassingly - when jumping off a high wall attempting to emulate the flight of seagulls.<br />
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'''Really''' didn't want to be interred in a pyramid when he realised that he wouldn't die but stay there forever. His [[ghosts|ghost]] disconsolately watched [[Dil]] the Master Embalmer and [[Gern]] the Apprentice strip out his corpse and ready it for interment.<br />
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Was instrumental in the breaking open of the tombs and the final - grateful - death of all the previous monarchs.<br />
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